Scott Piekarsky

Scott B. Piekarsky is a principal in the firm’s Commercial Litigation Practice Group. Scott is certified as a civil trial attorney by the New Jersey Supreme Court. Working on a large spectrum of litigation matters, he regularly handles cases involving general corporate and business law, professional liability, attorney ethics and professional licensing representation, expert review, community association, real estate, healthcare, nursing home and assisted living litigation, personal injury, chancery, commercial collections, probate and appellate law.

Scott has decades of experience working on a vast array of defense insurance cases and maintains an active practice providing legal counsel to community and homeowners associations. He is a Court Qualified Mediator and has served on many occasions as a court-appointed attorney, guardian, special master and special fiscal agent.

Scott is very active in professional development, ethics issues and mentoring. He is a former member of the New Jersey Supreme Court Committee on Women in the Courts, which educates law students, the bench and bar on gender and LGBTQ issues. On that committee, he participated in preparing a bench guide for municipal and superior court judges, providing guidance on topical issues such as transgender issues, religious garb, et al. He is a Master in the Justice Robert L. Clifford Inn of Court and a former Barrister in the Morris Pashman American Inn of Court. He served as a law clerk to the Hon. Peter Ciolino, Assignment Judge of the Superior Court, Bergen County. Scott writes regularly for legal publications about ethics and practice issues.